I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
"Deprogram", you mean.
Man, that comic is drawn worse than the Jack Chick tracts. I know there have to be at least a couple decent comic book artists in KY...
I love this strategery, it needs to be exported around the country! Finally, a real live Dem with a mean streak disguised as a sense of humor--woohoo!
Even better was the comment boards. Tacitus just got his ass handed to him on a platter. It's a new morning (well, er, evening) in America!
Not to ruin the point of the post (because it doesn't...Kentucky is a Blue State)...but the incumbent Governor, Paul Patton, is a Democrat.
Not to ruin the point of the post (because it doesn't...Kentucky is a Blue State)...but the incumbent Governor, Paul Patton, is a Democrat.
Sigh...double post and a screw up...I meant to say Kentucky is a RED state.
Terrific bit of political theatre, and I hope to see more of it.
I'm "doing" Dean's event on 8/23 to get a feel for the guy and the folks around him (hope to hear some harmonica) and I'm starting to think that what is working for Dean is the theatre. I'll report back after the event. I'm working the clean-up crew. If Dean's smart, he'll thank us before he heads to Seattle, the clean-up crew does the really thankless stuff, and he knows it.
Ah... another encouraging sign. Democrats with balls; it's so crazy it just might work...
Hell, how did y'all miss the mocking of Arnold as well?
Three for the price of one.
"another encouraging sign. Democrats with balls; it's so crazy it just might work"
Heaven forbid it catches on. How many are following the Sharpton/Kucinich/Dean lead? The rest act as if they were recently seperated conjoined twins.
Except for Joe, who longs to be Newt Gingrich.
The incumbent's a Dem, but a Dem in a heavily Republican state who's not running for reelection.
For once, I wish that Ohio would take Kentucky's lead and put a Democrat in an office that's been held by Republicans since 1990 in a state that's about as Republican in terms of state leadership as California is Democratic.
(And we're showing the reflection of Republican leadership. Namely, population stagnation, an exodus of young trained professionals, and a not-insignificant deficit combined with some of the worst schools in the country.)
well, that's what dems are-the clean up crew. and did Clinton get any thanks?
Uh, I don't understand why the Beltway CW needs to change. It is... follow the script, ignore reality.
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A Democrat "gets it"...
I think the next sign is the moon turning red...
Then frogs from the sky...
The moon's been red here all week.
The. Emerging. Democratic. Majority.
Buy the book.
Another governor who's sticking it to the brownshirts:
Gov. Gray Davis announced Saturday that he would sign legislation giving domestic partners most of the same legal rights that married couples have, saying the bill would help ensure "fairness for all Californians."
"This bill not only provides additional rights for domestic partners, it also imposes significant new obligations such as shared responsibility for debts and financial support for children," Davis said.
"As governor I will continue to do everything within my power to honor the dignity, humanity and privacy of every Californian regardless of their ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender or sexual orientation," the governor said...
The Goldberg bill would, among other things, allow domestic partners to file joint income tax returns and give them the same tax exemptions enjoyed by married couples.
It would also give them the same rights as far as the acquisition, transfer and sharing of property, health insurance and pension coverage and collection of government benefits, including public assistance.
Having family in kentucky I can say with all honesty that this state is hard to win unless you make a claim of god on your side, regardless of whether it is the truth or a lie.
What this man should do to cement his claim to the position is to go on record as disapproving on the partial birth abortion method.
By claiming he has a disapproval of it but not actually saying he will ban it, is sure to catch a lot of these people by surprise and garner him another 5-10% on the populace no questions asked.
The question is whether he is used to living in the rural Louisville, Lexington, Corbin areas, or along the Tennessee state line where they still have blue laws and dry counties.
Be well.
Fair & Balanced Buckeye MYOB'
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I love this strategy, it needs to be exported around the country! Finally, a real live Dem with a mean streak disguised as a sense of humor--woohoo!
Hey, don't forget about Michael Moore!
(But I think it should be a "sufficiently mean" streak, in both cases. Don't want to discourage recruitment!)
And right on to the export plan! Export and multiply.
Think "novelty alarm clocks."
After all, it's a rough, hungover morning in 'Merrcuh, and I think most fair and balanced people would really prefer to wake up with a laugh.
(Not a bad meme right there, if you can work it.)
Speaking of MM, he debuted a chapter ("The United States of Boo!") from his new book ("Dude, Where's My Country?") in Belfast yesterday. There's a pretty fun report (with mp3 files, etc.) at Indy Media Centre in Ireland:
http://www.indymedia.ie/
newswire...40aef1dc4b8dcc4
Correction - the report was posted yesterday. The reading was August 9. Be sure to check out the comment boards too.
This could work in California, too.
The Job Terminator™ should stalk Arnold. "RepublEconomics™ has destroyed jobs, saddled us with decades of public debt, wrecked health care and trashed education. More! Hey, let's have some more!"
Should it be Job Terminator™?
Or Job Terminator®
"and did Clinton get any thanks?"
Clinton gets far too much praise. Or are we forgetting, Defense of Marriage, telecommunications act, Welfare Reform, Arms sales, NAFTA/GATT,so on.
Just because he was more personable, than Reagan or Bush, doesn't mean he wasn't a company man.
I hate to defend Republicans, but, in a way they are right. After Reagan cut taxes ( which we now know was in reality the LARGEST tax increase ever), nearly every year their was a tax bill rectifying his big giveaway. Bush HAD to raise taxes, and if one looks at something like the Bartcop chart on the economy, you can see a steady increase.
Clinton's tax bill was just a continuation of the previous bills.
For a president who gets oodles of Democratic praise, his politics were more Republican. I think ALL the bills I mentioned came in his SECOND term.
Why sign them if he had NOTHING to lose?
Telecommunications act, set the groundwork for todays monoply problem. Pitt commented on that the other day in his C-span speech.
Actually Boomer, welfare reform was signed before he was elected the second time, and if I'm not mistaken, so was NAFTA. The others I'm not sure about, except DOMA, which was definitely during the second term.
Dick Tuck lives!
'Retire' is an extremely polite way to characterize Governor Patton's political demise in the Bluegrass State.
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Aug. 22) -- President Bill Clinton today signed a sweeping welfare reform bill that ends the open-ended guarantee of federal aid and shifts much of the responsibility for public assistance to the states.
Dec. 8, 1993 President Clinton signs NAFTA into law.
Clinton signs telecom bill
President Clinton signing
Online protest continues
February 8, 1996
Web posted at: 12:25 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton signed into law Thursday a far-reaching telecommunications bill aimed at giving consumers a wider choice for cable TV and local and long-distance telephone services.
Other than Nafta and Welfare reform ( didn't touch the corporate stuff though), he signed during an election year. Looks as if he was trying to curry favor with, surely NOT republicans ( they were not part of his voter base, as were Gay voters and their families.
Telecommunications was clearly at the behest of corporate donors.
People should view Clinton for what he was, a Politician.
Someone who liked Monica to do her vaginal castro impression.
Yes, he is a better politician than Bush. But, many of his policies were just as awful.
And, they clearly can't be seperated from the trends that exist today.
One has to ask, if Clinton had moved to the left, instead of the right, could such a right wing fascist administration ever get elected? Could a Bush even run against a popular left president?
The incumbent Chandler is fighting is Senator Mitch McConnell, the biggest whore in all of DC. McConnell's using corporate whore money to buy up every office in the state--already owns the legislature.
What's so bad about NAFTA? Isn't free trade ultimately a good thing?
Unless we rig the game.
Calling people names is so smart! Lets hope the Democrats focus on that for fall 2004.
Calling people names is so smart! Lets hope the Democrats focus on that for fall 2004.
http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html
Dr. Pedant - great link!
If you don't "get it," just take it (over and over and over again) from the GOP:
Contrasting Words
Often we search hard for words to define our opponents. Sometimes we are hesitant to use contrast. Remember that creating a difference helps you. These are powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast. Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party.
http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html
didn't say clinton was perfect, but they wanted a balanced budget and the DEMS gave it to them and what did they do???
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